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The Pacific is the largest of the world's oceans. This book discusses its distinctive geography and climate and how it has physically shaped many of the Pacific people - how they have evolved into large-bodied, muscular people to meet the particular demands of their oceanic environment. Evidence regarding their origins, including recent studies of DNA, is considered. The likely pattern of routes through the Pacific is interpreted against the results of a computer simulation of human survival at sea. Modern health problems are discussed in relation to the evolutionary requirements of the past, of which they may be a result. A fascinating book, though slightly technical.

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"....the most ambitious attempt so far to deal with the biological anthropology of the peoples of the 'Remote Pacific,' the inhabitants of the islands to the east, northeast, and southeast of New Guinea-Polynesia" Asian Perspectives

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"....the most ambitious attempt so far to deal with the biological anthropology of the peoples of the 'Remote Pacific,' the inhabitants of the islands to the east, northeast, and southeast of New Guinea-Polynesia" Asian Perspectives

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